Obtaining New Power
Higashino Makoto stood on a hill on the outskirts of Tengu City, looking up at the sky.
Her long, silvery-white hair swayed gently in the night breeze, eight pairs of black wings were folded behind her, and the Degradation Aura was suppressed to the minimum to avoid affecting the spell's execution in a short while.
Light appeared in the sky.
Light from all directions converged above Tengu City, coalescing into a massive vein of light.
The light veins meandered and flowed through the sky, like a river hanging upside down, its waters carrying the most primal spiritual energy in the world.
Mio Takamiya.
The Primal Elf Kingdom, the origin of all Elf Kingdom.
Her form transformed into the spiritual vein itself, appearing above Tengu City and merging with this world.
Higashino Makoto's lips curled up slightly.
The time has come.
Eight pairs of black wings unfolded simultaneously.
His body shot up from the hill, so fast that even his afterimage was invisible, and the next second he was already in the center of the light vein.
A torrent of spiritual energy surged in from all directions, crashing against his body like waves crashing against rocks.
But his body the Unassailable, the Authority of the Pride Demon neutralizing each of these impacts.
He took out a silver-white crystal from his backpack, inside which was the magic formula base plate that Higashino Makoto had created with his own blood.
Blood flowed from the crystal, suspended in the air, and transformed into a complex crimson rune.
The runes began to spin, faster and faster, growing larger and larger, expanding from the size of a palm to a diameter of ten meters, enveloping Higashino Makoto and the entire light vein.
The procedure is initiated.
The flow of spiritual energy has changed.
They no longer flowed along the veins of light, but were drawn by the crimson runes, converging towards Higashino Makoto's body.
Spiritual energy was stripped from the light veins, poured down from the sky, and surged into his body from all directions.
A power so immense, unlike anything he had ever experienced, was filling every inch of his body.
The Authority of the Pride Demon began to expand under the impact of this force, and the Degradation Aura was stretched, expanding from a radius of half a meter to one meter, two meters, and five meters.
He was immediately suppressed by Higashino Makoto, and his aura was compressed back to its lowest level.
But the feeling of expansion continued, like a balloon being constantly inflated inside him, ready to burst at any moment.
The influx of spiritual energy did not stop.
Higashino Makoto closed his eyes, immersing his consciousness within his body to observe the things that were taking shape.
Deep within his soul, three points of light were coalescing from the torrent of spiritual power, growing larger and brighter until they finally transformed into three completely different forms.
The first item.
A huge black flower floated in the center of his soul, its petals layered upon each other, like a blooming red spider lily.
The flowers emitted black particles, not light, but a darkness that could devour light.
Those particles drifted within him, touching his magic, but the magic remained unchanged.
Even when you touch his soul, his soul remains unchanged.
He is the master; these things will not harm him.
But if it's an enemy, even a single particle will have only one outcome: death.
The Altar of Extreme Death.
Corresponding to the Sanctuary of Myriad Forms, the Death Demon King.
The second item.
A tall, dark tree with a broad canopy, gnarled branches, and roots that penetrated deep into his soul.
The space around the trees is distorted, not in a physical sense, but in a sense of law.
Gravity can change direction at the tree crown, time can speed up or slow down at the tree roots, and temperature can have both freezing and boiling points at the tree trunk.
Within its domain, all laws can be rewritten.
Eternal Miasma Prison.
Corresponding to the Angel's Samsara Paradise, the Law Demon King.
The third item.
A black seed, no bigger than a thumb, floats among the flowers and trees. Its surface is smooth as a mirror, without any patterns or luster.
It floated there silently, like a sleeping egg. But Higashino Makoto could sense that an extremely terrifying power slumbered within this seed.
Its power is the simplest: it is used for erasure.
The selected target is completely removed from reality, leaving no trace, no cause or effect, as if it never existed.
Nether Womb of Absolute Nothingness.
The Void Demon King corresponds to the Angel of Nothingness.
The three demonic powers simultaneously took root in his soul, intertwining with the Authority of the Pride Demon, and with the skills and magic brought from the game world.
His perception changed.
Death is no longer a Void concept, but a concrete and tangible one, as omnipresent as the black particles emanating from the Altar of Extreme Death.
He could sense the laws, the fundamental rules that constitute the world, which became transparent and modifiable in his eyes.
He could sense Void; those things that seemed real became fragile and could be erased in his eyes.
The spiritual veins began to dissipate.
The spiritual vein slowly disappeared from the sky above Tengu City.
Because he took half of Mio Takamiya's power, the rest returned to her body.
Higashino Makoto floats in the sky, looking down at the city below.
The lights were on, cars were flowing like a river, and people were going about their lives. No one knew what had just happened.
He lowered his head, looking at his hands. The power of the three demon kings flowed within him, achieving a delicate balance with the Authority of the Pride Demon.
However, it wasn't quite what he expected.
"Why is it only balanced with the power of the Pride Demon? What about the power of my game character?"
Higashino Makoto stood by the window of his hotel room, moonlight streaming in and casting his shadow on the floor.
He looked down at his hands, his mind immersing in his body.
The power of the three demon kings flowed within him.
The Dark Particles of the Death Demon King flowed in his blood like a black river.
The Law Demon King's law-distorting force field coiled around his bones like an invisible armor.
The Seed of Void of the Void Demon King floated deep within his soul, slowly rotating like a black hole.
The three forces intertwined with the Degradation Aura of the Pride Demon, entwining and balancing each other to form a stable cycle.
The three demon kings formed a whole and were placed on one side of the scale.
On the other end is the power of the Pride Demon.
Higashino Makoto clenched his fist, then relaxed it.
This is not the balance he envisioned.
He believed that the power of the three demon kings would build a bridge between the Pride Demon and the game character, allowing the three to achieve balance.
But he was wrong.
The scales tilted only slightly before stabilizing, and the stabilization was quite bizarre.
The Pride Demon is at one end, and the three demon kings are at the other.
No, where's my game character?
His professional level, his skills, his magic—it all seemed to have vanished.
No, it should be transformed into a single point, around which the three demon kings are constantly revolving.
How did these two forces get mixed up?
He frowned.